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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 249

fiscal year thereafter with respect to employment occurring
after June 30, 1964, except as otherwise provided herein.

(2) The Executive Director shall maintain an
experience-rating record for each employer. Nothing in this
article shall be construed to grant to any employer or to
individuals performing services for him prior claims or
rights to the amounts paid by the employer into the fund.

Except as required by paragraph (i) of this subsection,
benefits paid shall be charged against employer
experience-rating records as hereafter specified.

If the claimant earned 75 percent or more of his base
period wages from the principal base period employer, all
regular benefits and the appropriate share of any extended
benefits paid to such individual shall be charged against
the experience-rating record of his principal base period
employer (as defined in paragraph (9) of this subsection)..
If the claimant earned less than 75 percent of his, base
period wages from the principal base period employer, all
regular benefits and the appropriate share of any extended
benefits paid to such individuals shall be charged on a pro
rata basis to all base period employers. The percentage of
the charge to each base period employer shall be in the same
proportion as the amount of wages paid to the claimant by
each such employer is to the total amount of wages received
by the claimant during the base period, and shall be
[computed as a] ROUNDED OFF TO THE NEAREST whole number
[without decimals]. With respect to governmental entities,
the appropriate share of any extended benefits shall be [one
half of any extended benefits paid to such individuals for
compensable weeks beginning on or before December 31, 1978,
and] all extended benefits paid to such individuals. [for
compensable weeks beginning after December 31, 1978.] With
respect to all other employers, the appropriate share of any
extended benefits shall be one half of any extended benefits
paid to such individuals.

(i) If the claimant's unemployment is
caused by a shutdown by his employer for the purpose of
having employees take their vacations at the same time, for
inventory, for retooling, or for other purpose of the
employer, that is primarily other than a lack of work and
causing unemployment for a certain and definable period,. all
benefits paid to the claimant for that period shall be
charged against the experience-rating record of the
claimant's employer who caused the shutdown.

(ii) Benefits paid to a claimant under a
determination or decision made pursuant to this article
shall not be charged against any employer's
experience-rating account if as a result of reversal or
redetermination a disqualification is imposed for a week or
weeks for which said payments were made.